QS World University Rankings 2015/16

LONDON, September 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

World's most popular global university ranking, and the most diverse 

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The twelfth edition confirms Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the world's top university followed by Harvard (2nd), Cambridge and Stanford (3rd=) while ETH Zurich (9th) breaks into the top 10.

Singapore's leading universities gain substantially, each making the top 15 for the first time. National University of Singapore (12th) is the leading Asian institution and Nanyang Technological University (13th) is right behind them, taking a quantum leap.
Australian National University (19th) also returns to the top 20.
China's Tsinghua University (25th) is Asia's third best university, leading a strong Chinese cohort.

76,798 academics and 44,226 employers contributed to the rankings through the QS global surveys, the largest of their kind and QS analyzed 11.1 million research papers - indexed by Elsevier's Scopus database.  3,539 institutions were considered for inclusion and 891 ranked.

A modified approach to "citations per faculty", a measure of research impact, has delivered fairer evaluations for universities with a strong profile in areas with lower research activity, such as arts, humanities and social sciences. LSE (35th) and other leading institutions traditionally overshadowed by research-intensive universities, see their excellence more equitably recognized.

Ben Sowter, QS head of research says: "These latest results reveal more diversity than ever in the distribution of world-class universities at the highest levels. We're providing prospective students with the richest picture yet."

   
    2015       2014       Top 20                                Country
    1          1          MIT                                      US
    2          4          HARVARD                                  US
    3=         2=         CAMBRIDGE                                UK
    3=         7          STANFORD                                 US
    5          8          CALTECH                                  US
    6          5=         OXFORD                                   UK
    7          5=         UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON                UK
    8          2=         IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON                  UK
    9          12         ETH ZURICH                               CH
    10         11         CHICAGO                                  US
    11         9          PRINCETON                                US
    12         22         NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE            SG
    13         39         NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY         SG
    14         17=        EPFL                                     CH
    15         10         YALE                                     US
    16         14=        JOHNS HOPKINS                            US
    17         19         CORNELL                                  US
    18         13         U PENN                                   US
    19=        25=        AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY           AU
    19=        16         KING'S COLLEGE LONDON                    UK


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The rankings include universities from 82 countries. Thirty-four countries feature in the Top 200. The United States dominate, with 49 institutions, ahead of the UK (30), Netherlands (12), Germany (11), Canada, Australia, and Japan (8), China (7), France, Sweden and Hong Kong (5).  

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